Garment-supporter.



L. WOODS.

GARMENT SUPPORTER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 1?. 1917.

L29'ihfi2lf6. Patented Mar. 18,1919.

WITNESSES:

INVENTOR.

ATTORNEY UNITED s ATEs PA ENT OFFICE.

LEONARD WOODS, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

GARMENT-SUPPORTER.

1,297,526. Specification of Letters Patent. t t 1 191 Application filed May 17, 1917. Serial No. 169,246.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEONARD l/VooDs, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment-Supporters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in garment supporters, the peculiarities of which will be hereinafter described and claimed.

The object of my invention is to provide a supporter for trousers, or other articles of apparel, adapted to be readily attached and detached at either end to or from the respective garments that it connects, and one of which it supports through such connection.

In the accompanying drawing on which like reference letters indicate corresponding parts,

Figure 1 represents a front view of my supporter in plate form of yoke;

Fig. 2, an edge view of the same, indicating method of attachment;

Fig. 3, a fragmental view indicating the method of stamping and bending the clamp jaw; and

Fig. 4, a face view of my supporter in the spring form of yoke.

52 designates the central body portion of an inverted yoke having arms 33 branching upward and outward, and ending in bows 44, preferably U-shaped and opening horizontally, so as to form shoulders to engage the necks of buttons, or other means of support on a trousers band for example, as indicated by broken lines. At the lower central portion of the yoke is provided, integrally or otherwise, a fastening device, preferably consisting of clamping jaws 55, closed by a spring 6 mounted on the pivot pin 7.

Fig. 3 shows how one jaw may be stamped out with the plate yoke shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

This clamp, or other suitable fastener, is adapted to be secured to a portion of the adjacent shirt, or other garment that may serve to carry or support the said yoke, and thereby in turn will act to carry or support the trousers, or other garment engaged by said bows. This is the preferred method of use of my garment supporter herewith exemplified, but it may be otherwise employed or used according to desire and convenience.

Instead of a plate yoke as shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, I may embody this device in a spring yoke as illustrated in Fig. 4. The central portion 2 of the yoke may be of plate on which the clamp and the spring arms 3', 3 are shown mounted; or it may be otherwise formed. The end bows 4, 4 are preferably open horizontally in the opposite direction from the bows shown in Fig. 1, to facilitate springing inward for slidingly engaging the trousers buttons. In Fig. 1, the buttons on the trousers band are slid horizontally into the bows by pinching up a fold or fullness of the band between the buttons; when released, the pull of the band will keep the buttons engaged. In Fig. 4, the spring yoke allows the bows to be readily engaged or disengaged, whether the garment be flexible or stiff. The U- shaped bows and arms may be formed as indicated by broken lines in Fig. 4, if desired.

The bows and clamp form three pointsof a triangle open or otherwise, with the clamp located below and between the other two points. That is to say, the clamp constitutes the point of support for the upwardly branching yoke and the trousers (or other garment) engaged by the ends of the yoke, thereby tending to maintain the properly adjusted position of my device and the supported garment.

I claim:

1. An article of the character described comprising a body portion, with arms rigidly connected thereto and extending upward like a Y and terminating at the top in U-shaped bows, horizontally disposed, constituting shoulders adapted to engage buttons on the inside of the waistband of trousers, and fastening means located below said bows on said body portion, adapted to be temporarily secured to a portion of the adj acent shirt of the wearer, to form a point of support for the device,said point of support being below said points of engagement to said trousers.

2. An article of the character described, comprising a thin plate body portion of relatively greater height than width, adapted to be adjusted between the wearers waist-band and shirt,said body portion being provided. at the top with plate bows of U shape, horizontally disposed, constituting shoulders adapted to engage and brace against buttons on the inside of a waist-band of trousers,

and @Iainpifigmafis Tocated at the bottom In testimonj iiiiiereof I have afiiize d my of said body portion, adapted temporarily signature in the presence of two Witnesses. to clamp a portion of the adjacent shirt, i

that has been brought forward from behind v LEONARD WOODS' the device and is retained by said clamping Witnesses: meansin supporting position, substantially H. M. PLAISTED,

as described. 1 GERTRUDE BEARD.

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-. Washington, D. G." 

